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Post by shaxper on Jun 7, 2014 5:40:51 GMT -5
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 7, 2014 8:35:29 GMT -5
It's exciting! I read them from the library, so I'm looking forward to actually having them on the shelf  |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 7, 2014 12:26:37 GMT -5
Darn, those look really nice. Looks like I should have waited
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 15:51:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm getting that for sure. I just wish the hardcover wasn't a limited edition. I'll try to get that but may have to settle for the soft cover |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 19:24:43 GMT -5
Broke 100 for the month yesterday. All my shows ended and I'm spending several days a week in a lobby reading for between 5 and 8 hours, so things are picking up for me.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 21, 2014 16:51:49 GMT -5
Wow... very impressed with the first trade of Ostrander's Spectre... definitely the best thing I've read so far this month. Does it continue to be good? Flipping through the summaries and such, it seems the 2nd story like (starting with #13) is pretty different.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 21, 2014 19:13:57 GMT -5
Wow... very impressed with the first trade of Ostrander's Spectre... definitely the best thing I've read so far this month. Does it continue to be good? Flipping through the summaries and such, it seems the 2nd story like (starting with #13) is pretty different. It does continue to be good, keep reading. Do the trades reproduce the covers? This series had an outstanding set of covers by a whole range of artists. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2014 21:28:53 GMT -5
Wow... very impressed with the first trade of Ostrander's Spectre... definitely the best thing I've read so far this month. Does it continue to be good? Flipping through the summaries and such, it seems the 2nd story like (starting with #13) is pretty different. Beginning to end, the Ostrander/Mandrake run on Spectre is one of the best runs in comics, period, and it continues to get better as they hit their stride on the series. The final story is perhaps the best of the run, though the Haunting of America is my favorite. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 21, 2014 22:43:33 GMT -5
One of my favorite books ever. I think Haunting of America reads better when you have the whole run. I remember it dragging a bit when it was monthly.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 22, 2014 10:32:28 GMT -5
Wow... very impressed with the first trade of Ostrander's Spectre... definitely the best thing I've read so far this month. Does it continue to be good? Flipping through the summaries and such, it seems the 2nd story like (starting with #13) is pretty different. It does continue to be good, keep reading. Do the trades reproduce the covers? This series had an outstanding set of covers by a whole range of artists. It does, and they are awesome... Glen Fabry, Dan Bereton, and one of the Hildebrandts are ones that stood out especially. I'll have to be on the look out for them... not much on E-Bay, and the next trade isn't until Jan. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 23:27:04 GMT -5
Accidentally quoted myself again  |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 23, 2014 9:04:51 GMT -5
I tried Ostrander's Spectre run almost ten years ago and just felt that the initial stories were too depressing. I probably need to try it again.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 23, 2014 11:20:17 GMT -5
It was dark, for sure, but not even in a grimdark for dark's sake way, (like much of New52)... Spectre is sorta a dark character, I think this particular version hit it on the mark (at least the 1st 12 issues)
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Post by shaxper on Jun 23, 2014 13:03:54 GMT -5
See, that's the funny thing. I love the Spectre and enjoy the darkness, but it was always a perverse enjoyment of being dark in the previous incarnations. The Ostrander run is more haunted by the darkness rather than perversely enjoying the darkness. Spectre is haunted instead of haunting.
Not saying this is wrong, but rather that I struggled with it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 23, 2014 13:30:12 GMT -5
I just don't think there's any way to divorce that. Jim Corrigan is a haunted man. He was haunted way before he became The Spectre. The book is really less about The Spectre and more about Jim Corrigan and his journey to understand himself, who he is and what he's become.
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